From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 14:24: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF2414D41 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA16400; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 08:53:33 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA08862; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 08:53:31 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990306085331.X490@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 08:53:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason A. Pfeil" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) References: <19990305143159.T490@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason A. Pfeil on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:50:52AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 March 1999 at 11:50:52 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:57:06 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:50:09 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: >>>>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 17:28:14 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: >>>>>>> Unfortunately, it appears that the installation program can't handle >>>>>>> HD's with >1024 cylinders. Is this the case? >>>>>> >>>>>> No. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Another option would be to use FreeBSD's installation proggy to >>>>>>> delete the already-created partition and create a new one. Any >>>>>>> ideas? >>>>>> >>>>>> That's what I was suggesting above. But if you don't want to change >>>>>> the size of the partition, changing the partition type would do. >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, I tried to change the type of the partition to 165 >>>>> (freebsd). I guess I'll have to try to change the size of the partition. >>>> >>>> What's unfortunate about that? What went wrong? >>> >>> That's what I tried originally. It was after that that I sent the >>> original message. >> >> I'm not sure what this statement has to do with my question. I'm >> prepared to help, but this is supposed to be a dialogue, not a series >> of unsubstantiated statements. > > Jeez. I am trying to have a dialog. Then answer my questions. > The first thing I did during the > installation was to change the type of the partition to freebsd. The > installation program told me to do that. It still wouldn't let me create > any slices. For the fifth time, what was the message? > I guess it's that the root partiton of freebsd would end in a > cylinder number > 1023. This coming week is Spring Break and I will > try the copying of all data off the drive and low-level formatting > the drive and then seeing if the BIOS LBA will see the drive as > having < 1024 cylinders but >> 63 heads. You're not listening. > I'll report back with my findings. Don't bother. I can't be bothered any more. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message